The U.S. Census Bureau today released its
annually updated interactive global resource on the prevalence
of HIV infection and AIDS cases and deaths. First developed in 1987, the
database now holds more than 164,000 statistics, an increase of approximately
5,900 new estimates in the last year, and is the most comprehensive resource of
its kind in the world.

The Census
Bureau’s HIV/AIDS database is the world’s only resource that consolidates
HIV/AIDS information for policymakers, academics and health care professionals
who conduct research to help end the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The current annual
updates and long time series of globally available findings in the database
serve as a comprehensive and valuable resource for the many health care leaders
throughout the world conducting research on HIV/AIDS prevention, care and
treatment.

The tool
consists of a library of statistics from more than 14,900 sources in
international scientific and medical journals, individual countries’ annual
HIV/AIDS surveillance reports, and papers and posters presented at
international conferences. China represents 28 percent of the new records in
the database, the largest increase by a single country.

The
menu-driven access tool enables users to search for statistical information in
countries and territories across the world, as well as by subpopulation,
geographic subarea (such as urban and rural), age, sex and year from the 1960s
to 2013.